Hello to whom it my concern! As you have figured out by now, my name is Gage Reeves and I am in a marketing class. That comes as a direct result of where I'm heading in life right now. To take you back a bit, I was born and raised in good old Roseburg, a small town of about 20,000 in southern Oregon. My father has been an entrepreneur as long as he has been working and he faithfully instilled that same skill set and passed on that same love to me. The name of the game is high-end custom cabinetry and I've been working with him in it for about the last decade. I feel like I'm doing what I'm meant to do when I get to take a dream in someone's mind and make it a reality with my own two hands. There's a beauty and kind of art to working with wood to turn a house into a home with someone's dream kitchen, office, dinner table, armoire or you name it. This summer we built someone a coffee table with a secret compartment and magnetic catch, and he teared up he was so happy. So I'm here at school partially because with my scholarships, I can get a four year degree in business administration with no debt and partially to really understand business better and get the skill set to take my father's business into the 21st century as I hopefully carry on the legacy. In this class in particular, I am excited to learn really anything about marketing. My father has carried our business for the last 20 years on nothing but word or mouth, never having a website, phone number, billboard, newspaper ad, or so much as business card. I know that with sustained quality, we can take steps to wisely market our business and increase our customer base. I am most excited about seeing how marketing can help small business like mine.
Outside of all this however, life keeps me busy. I am president at Antioch house, the Christian fraternity in town, I'm engaged to the love of my life, I hike, play soccer, work at the one and only G3 Sports and Fitness, drink too much coffee, read too many books, and ride motorcycles. I own a particular kind of motorcycle that is designed to be on road and off road. Me and my dad have been doing this together for a few years now, where we have found a way to combine our love for camping in the woods, and riding motorcycles. We pack up our backpacking gear on these bikes and ride dusty logging roads, backwood trails, muddy paths to nowhere, and mountainous routes to remote vistas all over Oregon on 3 or 4 day trips. We've almost died more than a few times but there's really nothing like it. It's a sense of freedom, independence and life like I have never felt before. I've seen sunsets beyond the imagination, ridden with wild horses, ridden through an entire bee hive, been run off the road, crashed a couple times, swam in glacial lakes, and seen the endless beauty this state has to offer and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon! But anyway, that is me!
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